Theodore Roosevelt on Strength Quotes

"When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"The light has gone out of my life."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President... is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"The people of the United States suffer from periodical financial panics to a degree substantially unknown to the other nations, which approach us in financial strength. There is no reason why we should suffer what they escape. It is of profound importance that our financial system should be promptly investigated, and so thoroughly and effectively revised as to make it certain that hereafter our currency will no longer fail at critical times to meet our needs."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as his wife."

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much."

"Physical thickness is of no use if there is not mental and moral strength back of it."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win must be in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

"Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little."

"Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. Letter to John Hay, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, written in Washington, DC (June 7, 1897)"

"No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue."

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."